Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

• 1 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1/3 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/4 teaspoon Coarse Salt
• 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 2 Egg
• 1/4 teaspoon Peppermint Extract
• 1/2 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
• 12 pieces Mini Candy Canes, Lightly Crushed

1. Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside
2. With a stand mixer or hand mixer, cream butter and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy
3. Add the egg and peppermint extract; with mixer on low, slowly incorporate the flour mixture and stir until incorporated
4. Mix in the chocolate chips by hand; chill dough for 2 hours before baking
5. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees F
6. Scoop roughly a tablespoon of dough out and roll into a ball. flatten the ball and press the top of the dough with crushed candy cane bits
7. Space cookies on a sheet 1 1/2-in. apart and bake 10-12 minutes until edges are firm and center is soft.
8. On the last two minutes of baking, add more of the peppermint topping to each cookie
9. Cool cookies on a wire rack

allpurpose, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, egg, semisweet chocolate chips, canes

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/dark-chocolate-peppermint-cookies-5c950b31550cdd589d17f23b (may not work)